Ministers are accusing 33 English education authorities of having failed to pass on to schools all the funding they were supposed to have done.

In future I expect LEAs to ensure that increased funding gets through to schools

Education minister David Miliband

But the proportion of the "schools budget" that is being passed on has risen from 86.5% last year to 87.3% this year - the target was 87%.

In the annual "naming and shaming" exercise, the Department for Education has also singled out 18 councils which it says have not passed on at least as big an increase as they received from central government.

The data also reveal the wide range of funding schools get per pupil, depending on where they are - from £4,265 in Tower Hamlets in east London to £2,380 in Solihull.